Sentence examples for large army in from inspiring English sources

Air travel and car travel require a large army in the Middle East to assure a source of fuel.

Actually Gen. Antonio López de Santa Anna (Mr. Echevarría) has put together a large army in drummer-boy uniforms and is marching them north when least expected in the dead of winter.

But the troops were hired, and the cost of maintaining a large army in Europe, added to the lavish subsidies that Michael VIII paid to his friends and allies, crippled the economy.

Maximilian, using his journey to Rome for the Imperial coronation as a pretext, entered Venetian territory with a large army in February 1508 and advanced on Vicenza, but was defeated by a Venetian army under Bartolomeo d'Alviano.

The dangers to Vienna were considerable: the Elector of Bavaria and Marshal Marsin's forces in Bavaria threatened from the west, and Marshal Vendôme's large army in northern Italy posed a serious danger with a potential offensive through the Brenner Pass.

Not only would Egypt, threatened by this time by the Fatimids in the east, be spared the cost of maintaining a large army in these distant lands, but the Hamdanid emirate would also fulfil the useful role of a buffer state against incursions both from Iraq and also from Byzantium.

Armies had grown so big that generals could no longer cover their whole extent in person, while the radio technology that made manipulating large armies in WWII possible was yet to be invented.

The PLA is still the largest army in the world, with an active force of 2.3m.

Turkey is a Western ally with the second largest army in NATO.

The country has the second largest army in NATO after the United States.

Nigeria, with the largest army in West Africa, is tied up with a fight against its own Islamist radicals.